Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation?

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Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times Weekly February 2010


Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America 's future.

Despite the fac t that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America . Here's why.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.

Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our childr en left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.

We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.

A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that t here is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 "FANTASTIC" years--- the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.

Gary Hubbel l is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website, aspenranch

Answer 1

Let's hope this guy is right.

Answer 2

Last time I checked we have had Conservatives in charge of the Federal Government for most of the last 40 years.



Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion.

Reagan led a program of amnesty.



Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency.

Clinton ended those policies.



Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy.

Starting with Reagan and jumping under GW Bush.



Our children en left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy.

Schools were run State by state until No child left behind under GW Bush



Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms.

No, they didn't. This is just a lie.



Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities."

'welfare is still less than 2% of the population, most are white and need help for less than a year.



Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again.

The US has more Citizens behind bars than any other nation except Communist China.



Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.

Another bald faced lie.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Typical right wing drivel.



Unfortunately Obama isn't the right man to be President, if no other reason than he's unwilling to make the tough decisions. As an example, he didn't have to let the debt limit issue become a crisis, but he did. He didn't have to let the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy continue, but he did. On any number of issues he has tried logic and to appeal to common sense rather than just doing the right thing. As a reward he is seen as weak and even his own party are losing hope. But he isn't the real problem.



The real problem in the US is a combination of Americans who have an unrealistic sense of entitlement, who only care about themselves (Kennedy would be laughed off the lectern if he were to use his "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" line today), who believe the lies openly broadcast on Fox News, are too ignorant or stupid to see that it's the Republicans that have (mainly) brought the US to the brink of crisis.



Sure the Democrats have played their part, particularly with too liberal and unsustainable social programs but entitlement programs are not just due to Democrats ... the unfunded drug program brought in by Bush for example.



The reality is that many Americans have lost confidence in Obama and many more have no confidence in Congress as a whole ... and with good reason. But there isn't a single credible Republican Presidential candidate, and while I'm hoping Americans are smart enough to vote out many Congressmen and Senators I'm worried they will vote in more irresponsible dolts like the current tea party members.



I'm not a fan of our Government in Canada, but yours makes ours look great in comparison.

Answer 5

Typical amnesia regarding George Bush's wars that he put on a credit card, every year a subsidy of $2 billion deficit dollars going to oil companies while they make record profits. Shall I go on?

Answer 6

Conservatards have no chance come 2012.

Answer 7

Apparently he's awakened the Nation of Stupid.